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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Yesterday was the first day of Syawal where the Muslims celebrated the Hari Raya after a month of fasting. On this very day also, I took the opportunity to visit the open house hosted by the Prime Minister of Malaysia.The open house took place at his official residence, Seri Perdana Complex at Precinct 10, Putrajaya.

This was where the journey began. The public will need to walk this dedicated pathway leading to the complex. Free drinks were available all the way.

The complex has a beautiful landscape with more carnival atmosphere added to it.

The highlight of the open house was the food. It was quite hard to navigate around as people kept coming in.

Here were some of the food served here. They are not particularly delicious but definitely fill up my empty stomach.

Clown was engaged to keep the children entertained.

The open house also present me with an opportunity to explore the surrounding complex although most areas are off limit to the public.

After having my lunch, it was time to greet the Ministers. It was a long queue and it was shameful to see many of our Malaysians kept jumping queue here. Something just never change don't they?

The hand shaking process with the VIPs was rather swift and short as we were kind of shoved by the police officers out of the complex after shaking hands with all of them. For the record, I remember shaking hands with Rosmah Mansor (The PM's wife), Idris Jala, Koh Tsu Koon, Ng Yen Yen and some other ministers.

Gosh... the Open House concept now is so commercialized. People go there to have free food, more than meeting the VIPs. Well, they won't have time to chat since the police will be there to shoo you away... and the PM is not even there to greet you.

The only open house I've ever attended was in Sarawak's CM's house - when I arrived, there's hardly any food left.